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Hace 5 días · Hunayn ibn Ishaq, the leader of a team of translators at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad played a key role with regard to the translation of the entire known corpus of classical medical literature.
Hace 5 días · The best scholars and notable translators, such as Hunayn ibn Ishaq, had salaries that are estimated to be the equivalent of professional athletes today. The House of Wisdom was a library established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq by Caliph al-Mansur in 825 modeled after the academy of Jundishapur. Openness to diverse influences
Hace 3 días · The teachings of Avicenna. in Islam in Islamic thought. Also known as: Al-Islām. Written by. Muhsin S. Mahdi. James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, Harvard University. Author of Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History. Muhsin S. Mahdi, Fazlur Rahman.
Hace 3 días · Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhri (Arabic: سَعْد بْنِ أَبِي وَقَّاص بْنِ وهَيْب الزُّهري, romanized: Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhrī) was an Arab Muslim commander. He was the founder of Kufa and served as its governor under Umar ibn al-Khattab.
Hace 3 días · The caliph himself collected texts, employed such translators as the celebrated Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, and established an academy in Baghdad, the Bayt al-Ḥikmah (“House of Wisdom”), with a library and an observatory.
Hace 2 días · He claimed that this was reported about Ishaq Ibn Rahawayh, Hammad Ibn Zayd, Imam Ahmad, and others. He is a fabricator and great lier about that. In his Tafsir named "an-Nahr", the Grammarian Abu Hayyan al-'Andalusiyy reported about Ibn Taymiyah having this belief.
Hace 5 días · Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (born Feb. 18, 1201, Ṭūs, Khorāsān [now Iran]—died June 26, 1274, Baghdad, Iraq) was an outstanding Persian philosopher, scientist, and mathematician.
